At this point, forkhead box D1 (FOXD1), the cognate sense transcript of FOXD1‐AS1, attracted our attention because it has been verified to be upregulated in gastric adenocarcinoma tissues (Xu et al., 2016) and is recognized as an oncogene in several cancers (Li et al., 2018). The gene discussed is FOXD1; the disease is cancer.